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Students and teachers at Deer Creek Elementary School in Bailey will benefit significantly after the school’s PTA raised nearly $10,000 for specialized equipment and technology for the school library. Announced during the May 14 Jeffco school board meeting, the PTA raised $9,087 for four Hovercam document cameras, 40 Chromebook laptops, five activity tables with six chairs each, sky panels, and books for Veterans Day.

Wilmot Elementary School students are on a mission to make the Earth a better place.

Fourteen students have been named to the Green Team Superheroes, and they’ve worked all year with their classmates in three ways to curtail what they call energy pollution: reducing the amount of light used in classrooms, reducing the amount of energy from plugged-in electronic devices and reducing the amount of energy wasted because things were plugged in overnight when they didn’t need to be.

A development that will break ground next month called Vista El Rancho — a 54-unit affordable housing complex — continues to have its proponents and opponents.

The two-hour open house at Congregation Beth Evergreen on Monday night drew more than 100 people interested in learning about specifics of the project. Among attendees were Jefferson County Commissioner Casey Tighe and state Rep. Tim Leonard, R-Evergreen, plus representatives from organizations such as Evergreen Christian Outreach and Blue Spruce Habitat for Humanity.

The Jeffco Sheriff's Office is investigating the whereabouts of a 13-year-old runaway last seen in Pine.

According to Jenny Fulton, Jeffco sheriff’s spokeswoman, Titan Moles was last seen on Pine-Top Avenue in Pine on Monday afternoon. Moles, who has been known to run away in the past, is 13 years old, is approximately 5 feet 7 inches tall, and has brown hair and blue eyes.

Fulton says the department has an investigator on the case who is meeting with people known to Moles and his family but was unable to provide any other information.

The Park County Board of Commissioners, acting by and through Park County coroner David Kintz Jr., has filed a legal complaint against the Canyon Courier's umbrella organization Evergreen Newspapers, as well as reporter Sal Christ and editor Michael Hicks, seeking to restrict access to Maggie Long's autopsy.